Making do with an iPhone

An advantage of long lambing season hours is you never miss sunrise or the blue hour or constantly changing weather conditions. I wanted to carry my Fuji but was already laden with enough for a small donkey so have been relying on my iPhone. It didn’t do too badly.

Sunrises like this made 5am starts and long climbs worthwhile. I startled two Sea eagles from their vantage point on this crag, a lookout, linked to others along the lochs to south and west. Fires gave early warning of Viking invasion. Norse place names indicate it wasn’t always effective.

Sometimes the tidal dance of the loch was a slow waltz, sometimes a jig. When the wind built to gale force scanning with binoculars from hilltops required crawling into position, weight pitched against the blast.
Thanks for looking!

Ooh they do look quite worse on a laptop! Tramping the hills these last 3 weeks on one day only did I think I might take my camera as the weight and bulk wouldn't make much difference...! It was the straw that broke the slightly unfit camels back! Posted just to share scenes from a beautiful area, not to suggest the images are of good quality, but on seeing them in larger format admin please delete!

A very nice series of shots Kirsty, good composition throughout. In my past life, I used to keep sheep, and certainly know what “contractions” are, with my arm up the back end trying to retrieve the other twin lamb! We used to keep Cross Suffolks, and they tended to have twins, or even triplets. Happy days! Have you finished lambing yet?

On the contrary, I think Kirstybell should haul up an X-H1 with a sound crew and make a video documentary of the lambing operation.
I can almost hear the sound of the bagpipes rolling through the hills and the wind through the loch.
Allow me to post my "like" in advance!